Chapel burials, Leigh Nonconformist Chapel

Statistics (taking blocks of 7 years)

1873-79

10 burials

1880-86

35 burials

1887-93

13

1894-1900

2

1901-1907

7

1908-14

1

1915-21

–

1921-27

3

1938-34

6

1935-41

6

1942-48

7

1948-54

6

1955-60

–

1961-67

2

1967-73

1

1974-1979

3

Samuel Morley died in 1886 and nonconformity in Leigh then diminished.
Of the 49 burials before 1890, 19 were children under 2 and 4 more died in infancy.
On the other hand 29 persons were buried after 1920 and their average age was 77.41
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LEIGH CHAPEL: BURIAL GROUND
Index to Death Certificates of persons buried there 1873-1979: dates given are dates of Death Certificate, not date of burial